‘I Felt Like Crying’: Coronavirus Shakes China’s Expecting Mothers

Jeepers Alex do you have nothing better to report on? Are you confident that your government would have done way way better than ours? Well word has it there is gonna be a break-out in the US so maybe we will actaully find the answer.

How does this fit with all the Chinese citizens in Europe and the U.S. buying luxury items? If this is what it's like in China, the country has the worst features of an oligarchy and of communism. Isn't it dangerous for the people interviewed here to be critical of the government? Did the man who tried to bribe the security guard know he'd be identified by the Times? Do you tell the interviewees that the Times will be read by Chinese government officials? This story could cause irreparable damage to these people's lives.

So why is she wearing a mask? Don't they know that they have been proven ineffective? If people would just practice better hygiene viruses like this would never spread so badly. Look around and see how many times everyday people wipe,touch their face, eyes, nose and touch things. There has to be some awareness.

A touching story but not really. No country is equipped for such endemic outbreaks and when they occur saving lives rushes to the fore. The burden falls in China on the public hospitals; private hospitals are unlike elsewhere of lower levels of competency but easier access. Pregnancy requires special attention but has historically been aided by midwifes; such needed now.

Are there midwives in China? They could certainly alleviate the fears of pregnant women by visiting them at home and, unless there are complications as with the woman who may need dialysis, women can have their babies at home, where at least they will feel safe from the virus.

Good luck!

It's time to face the cold, hard truth. We are now in the worst-case scenario of globalization run amok. The Coronavirus from Wuhan is heading out way. It's estimated that half the population will eventually contract the disease. And of those who do get it, 20% will have a severe case. And this pandemic could last for years. So, if we're older and/or have any underlying health condition, a death certificate has already been prepared for us. And if by some perverse miracle we survive weeks of hospitalization in a converted gymnasium, we will be stuck with a bill so large, we will go bankrupt and be forced out into the streets.

The Chinese response is interesting. They are able to build mass facilities for ill people, something that may be beyond the fast response capability of the West. By the time a western government responded it would are far too late. Certain failings are known: lack of sufficient personal protected gear, which should be stockpiled (but that costs money for a resource which has a shelf life), and now the lack of personnel. The former can be fixed for the next event, the latter is much more problematic. Perhaps a little of the dribble of money the government is preparing with (2.5 billion? Lose that much in a month if the infection rages) could be spent training people in basic patient care in order to free up more experienced personnel for critical cases.

Ms Liu, you have our sympathy and do the best to take care of your unborn. Across the Pacific Ocean, we have not much to brat about our healthcare system in one of the most prosperous country in the world. We have a fiscal medical crisis without a major immediate medical crisis. There are shortage of physicians in rural areas. There are 20-30 millions of people without health insurance, more than 30 millions are under-insured and at least 500,000 filled bankruptcy annually for medical reasons. What an irony, sharp contrast between these two pictures ?

Institutions will be overwhelmed, even with American Exceptionalism. I shudder to imagine the chaos when the virus strikes our prison populations. Will low paid guards show up for work? Will inmates get any care?

Sarcastic comments about China's healthcare and lack of it miss the point. My heart breaks for these mothers-to-be. Of course, they are scared and have every right to be. Every healthcare system in the world is or will be overtaxed by this virus, including the United States'. If this becomes a true pandemic everywhere, these pregnant women's problems will be commonplace and the routine healthcare we take for granted will become an unknown. I hope and pray this doesn't happen but Trump has gutted so many federal agencies that could deal effectively with this, how can we know if the United States is prepared? Just throwing money at it won't work. There has to be intelligence behind the efforts and we all know that is sadly lacking in the White House.

Is this the future of US medical care as envisioned by Medicare for all?

This article exactly explains why Chinese government used extreme measure to slow down the outbreak: Overwhelmed health care system will turn away ppl without the disease. So far it has been effective as the number of patients are declining there. The same may challenge other nations if they don't prepare for it. This is not about politics. Our CDC just got its funding cut?

Reading what these poor women are going through I felt like...shakes China’s expecting mothers... Crying? Coronavirus! ‘I Felt Like Crying’: Coronavirus Shakes China’s Expecting Mothers’

For all its faults, the Communist party showed how authoritarian power, when wielded properly can be of great benefit. By quickly locking down 60 M people - an unheard of number - with no due process or court challenges etc, China was able to save hundreds of thousands of lives. If this establishes a foothold in the US, we are in big trouble. Do you think we can quarantine the whole of California and allow people to go out only once every 3 days for groceries? Nope. Let’s hope summer comes soon to save us.

China more interested in nuclear weapons, controlling territory in the South Seas and stealing intellectual property than modern medicine. Russia is more interested in nuclear weapons and posturing about its military to keep keep the 70 kleptocratic billionaires rolling in the money than providing modern healthcare for its people.

so sad, how awful. I imagine everyone reading this has empathy and compassion for the situation. "There is no functioning primary care system in China, where coverage can be limited and there is already a shortage of doctors." So, centralized government control of a health system does not always work?

There is an ongoing crisis in China. Coronavirus is very contagious and draws world attention and Chinese national effort to stop it. Confusions about many things are bound to happen. I sympathize with the pregnant women at this moment. But things in China are improving fast. Many provinces and metropolitan areas have zero or just one new Coronavirus patient recently. Everyone feels more at ease and has more room to breath. BBC had an interview of several people in Beijing yesterday, showing people with confidence and optimism with the current progress towards fighting disease. The awkward situation for these pregnant female will soon be brought to the government attention. They will be taken care of.

I can't be the only one struck by the irony of an American reporter in an American newspaper pointing out the shortfalls of another country's healthcare system. Get back to me when China's citizens receive bills for tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars for their healthcare and have to go bankrupt as a result.

This epidemic will do more to solve China's demographic crisis than any rise in birth rates ever could. This virus selectively kills the elderly. So we can expect that large numbers of China's elderly will be dead soon. Demographic crisis solved. Similarly this virus shows great potential to solve America's problems with the ever rising costs of Social Security and Medicare. Every cloud has a silver lining!

That mask she's wearing will do NOTHING. Seeing people, here in NYC wearing them, is like the head gear they wrote in the middle ages - more along the lines of what someone without am understanding of what they need to be protected from, reacting.